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> > Character Set Encoding of Tags:
> > ===============================
> >
> > UTF-8 is the default encoding for tag data. Unfortunately UTF-8 muffed
> > it for Asian languages by doing the equivalent of giving the same
> > character codes to English, Russian, and Greek letters.
>
> It's interesting that Japanese and Chinese, which are unrelated languages,
> are sometimes mutually understandable when written, but somehow use totally
> different scripts.
>
Also, there would hardly have been any hurt feelings if U+0065
(Latin), U+0391 (Greek), and 0+0410 (Cyrillic) had been unified. It
would just not have saved enough code points to bother.
As far as "English" and "Russian" are concerned, the various
Latin-script and the various Cyrillic-script languages have been
unified for a long, long time.
Things like U+212A and U+212B should never have been allowed to
happen, on the other hand, IMNSHO.
-hpa
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